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[CITE: 16USC742k]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                  CHAPTER 9--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
 
Sec. 742k. Management and disposition of vessels and other 
        property acquired and arising out of fishery loans or related 
        type of activities
        
    For the purpose of facilitating administration of, and protecting 
the interest of the Government in, the fishery loan fund established by 
section 742c of this title and any related type of activities relating 
to fisheries for which the Department of the Interior is now or may 
hereafter be responsible, the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding 
any other provisions of law, may hereafter administer, complete, 
recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, maintain, operate, charter, 
assign, or sell upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most 
advantageous to the United States, any vessel, plant, or other property 
acquired by him on behalf of the United States and arising out of any 
fishery loan or any related type of activity by the Secretary of the 
Interior. The Secretary may use any of the applicable funds in each 
particular instance for the aforesaid purposes.

(Pub. L. 87-219, Sept. 13, 1961, 75 Stat. 493.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the 
Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 
84 Stat. 2090, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 742b 
of this title.
